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The Omaha Platform proposed reforms to help farmers and working Americans, including: increasing silver and gold coinage at a 16:1 ratio; establishing a federal loan system for farmers; eliminating private banks; creating federal storage facilities for crop pricing control; implementing a progressive tax; and establishing an eight-hour workday and direct election of senators. However, it did not appeal to urban areas and the Populist Party dissolved before World War II as its goals were adopted by other parties.

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The Omaha Platform proposed reforms to help farmers and working Americans, including: increasing silver and gold coinage at a 16:1 ratio; establishing a federal loan system for farmers; eliminating private banks; creating federal storage facilities for crop pricing control; implementing a progressive tax; and establishing an eight-hour workday and direct election of senators. However, it did not appeal to urban areas and the Populist Party dissolved before World War II as its goals were adopted by other parties.

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Omaha

The first goal of the Omaha Platform was to increase the coinage of silver and gold at a 16:1 ratio.

The Omaha Platform suggested a federal loans system so that farmers could get the money they

needed. The platform also called for the elimination of private banks. The platform proposed a

system of federal storage facilities for the farmers' crops. The objective was to allow the farmers to

control the pricing of their products. The Omaha Platform proposed a special taxing system for them

so that they would have to pay taxes depending on how much money they made. They also sought

for an eight-hour workday and the direct election of senators, as opposed to their being elected by

state legislatures. These main goals of the Omaha Platform were all focused on helping rural and

working-class Americans. After 1894, Populists emphasized the demand for free coinage of silver

rather than other goals, such as state-run railroads.

Dissolution

The platform did not appeal to the more urban areas of the country where wage earners were

working industrial jobs. The platform's only clear attempt to appeal to northerners in the east was

the clause mentioning pensions to ex-Union soldiers.  The Populist Party dissolved before World War

II as members were unable to meet in Omaha for the party's semi-centennial celebration, and for

the reason that many of the party's values have been accepted by other, more dominant political

parties.[5]

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